AGGREGATING DIALECTOLOGY, TYPOLOGY, AND REGISTER ANALYSIS by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Editor), Bernhard Walchli (Editor) ( 9783110317398 )

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Title:

AGGREGATING DIALECTOLOGY, TYPOLOGY, AND REGISTER ANALYSIS
LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN TEXT AND SPEECH

By:

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Editor), Bernhard Walchli (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

3110317397

ISBN 13:

9783110317398

Publisher:

DE GRUYTER

Pub. date:

20 January, 2014

Edition:

Digital original

Series:

linguae & litterae 28

Pages:

478

Description:

The linguae& litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically "state of the art" and interdisciplinarily open. In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future. The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board. Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

Synopsis:

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little interaction across these fields. But the fourteen contributions in this volume show that these subdisciplines actually share many interests and methodological concerns in common. The chapters specifically converge in the following ways: First, they all seek to explore linguistic variation, within or across languages. Second, they are based on usage data, that is, on corpora of (more or less) authentic text or speech of different languages or language varieties. Third, all chapters are concerned with the joint analysis (also sometimes known as "aggregation" or "data synthesis") of multiple phenomena, features, or measurements of some sort. And lastly, the contributors all marshal quantitative analysis techniques to analyse the data. In short, the volume explores the text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies, demonstrating that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.

US Grade:

College Graduate Student

Illustrations:

88 Illustrations, black and white; 20 Illustrations, color

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

De Gruyter

Returns:

Non-returnable

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